Denversaurus
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| ?Denversaurus Conservation status: Fossil |
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"Denversaurus" ("Denver lizard) is a junior synonym of the nodosaurid ankyosaur Edmontonia. The taxon was erected by Dr. Robert T. Bakker in 1988 based on a partial skeleton from Upper Cretaceous Lance Formation of South Dakota, but considered by later workers to belong to Edmontonia rugosidens (Vickaryous et. al., 2004). The holotype specimen of "Denversaurus" is in the collections of the Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver, Colorado (for which the genus was named). Bakker designated a single species, D. schlessmani to the genus.
[edit] References
- Bakker, R. 1988. Review of the Late Cretaceous nodosauroid Dinosauria: Denversaurus schlessmani, a new armor-plated dinosaur from the Latest Cretaceous of South Dakota, the last survivor of the nodosaurians, with comments on Stegosaur-Nodosaur relationships. Hunteria 1(3); 1-23 (1988).
- Vickaryous, Maryanska, and Weishampel 2004. Chapter Seventeen: Ankylosauria. in The Dinosauria (2nd edition), Weishampel, D. B., Dodson, P., and Osmólska, H., editors. University of California Press.
